Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architect and his wife would put Eric up for the night and give us both a delicious dinner , the Signora exercising just the degree of chaperonage that was considered desirable at that time . |
| 2 | Travelling was becoming fashionable at this time , but it was still unusual for a woman to tour the country in this way . |
| 3 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
| 4 | Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa , 38 , the newly elected UP senator and its presidential candidate , was shot dead at point-blank range on March 22 in Bogotá international airport terminal , despite having a heavy personal bodyguard . |
| 5 | A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury at the Old Bailey , in London , of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
| 7 | Jean-Philippe Ruggia has yet to scrape his elbows on a 500 but he was getting close at Eastern Creek . |
| 8 | An exclusion of liability for negligence in a consumer contract was held unreasonable at first instance in Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported where a clause in a contract for the processing of photographs provided that in the event of loss the processor was only to be liable for the value of the unprocessed material . |